The Bank Alt Post

Purpose

A bank alt is the toon you will be using to do all your auctioneering and banking. You will buy and sell off the AH. You will use him or her to store all profession based materials so that you may free up bag space on your main toons. You will mail mats, BOEs, transmog gear, and any profession based items to your bank alt to sell on the AH. You will mail your mats from your bank alt to your other toons to level professions. This will prevent you from going back to a main city, saving you time and allow you spend more time farming or leveling.

Besides storing loot to sell. Your bank alt will also store any Heirlooms, BOAs, and any vanity items that are not soul bound to your other characters.

Personal Bank and Bags

You will need at least four 16 slot bags. If you wish you may spend the gold on bigger bags and additional slots in your personal bank. The more slots you purchase the more bags you can use in your personal bank. Holding items will prevent you from flooding the market and decreasing the prices.

The cost of bags and additional slots will add up to a decent amount of gold but the time saved from being able to farm without hearthing back to a main city will make it up.

To start off you may obtain:

Netherweave Bag – 30 G on the AH. You could also craft the bags. If you are running Kara, Heroic MGT, and Sethekk Halls every week you could get a ton of cloth. I actually store the Netherweave cloth on my bank alt and have my tailoring friends make bags for me. I sell the bags on the AH or put them on leveling alts. You should only craft the bags if you already have the mats. This is a work mule. The whole idea is to get him or her up and running so you can start storing and selling.

Frostweave Bag – 200 G on the AH. Eventually you will want to upgrade to these bags or better.

Also keep in my mind that all items stored in your personal bank can be sold on the AH via remote AH. You are limited to 200 postings a day and you may do your auctioneering via App or from Battle.net.

Guild Bank

The guild bank will be used to store additional materials. You will need to purchase a guild charter and get 10 individuals to sign it. You may purchase additional bank slots at your convenience. The last few slots are 500, 1,000, and 5,000 gold. I would save them for later.

The best part is you will get to come up with a nifty guild name and give your bank alt additional flavor. You will also be able to design a guild tabard. Be sure to kick out all the members who signed the charter.

Race

Race doesn’t really matter… Wait I take that back. They do matter.

Any female except gnomes, dwarves and most of the horde races except Blood Elves are sexy in their banking attire.

Class

Do you want to Sprint, Blink, or Roll between the AH and bank? Then choose a Rogue, feral Druid, Mage or Monk.

If you want a consistently higher run speed. l recommend a Hunter, Deathknight, feral Druid, or a Paladin.

Do you want the option to wear a variety of clothes and bling? Then choose a Deathknight, Paladin or a Warrior.

Do you want a cool travel form? Then choose a Shaman or Druid.

Do you want to be a stealthy bank alt? Choose a Druid or a Rogue.

Professions

In order to obtain any useful professions you will need to level your bank alt to at least level 5. Level 10 is recommended if you want to be able to see your toon on the armory. You will still be able to do auctioneering on the mobile app at level 1.

Engineering
As a engineer you can wear googles and give your bank alt a Steam punk feel. The benefit is you may ask a mage to open a Portal to Shrine of Seven Stars so you may do all your business in a convenient location. More on that later.

Enchanting
This will let you disenchant all low level greens and be able to tell if you can disenchant higher ones. Especially useful if you are leveling more than one toon.

Cooking
I would train cooking for a Cooking Fire. Just more spice for your already flavorful toon. You could aim for a Chef’s Hat by doing the cooking daily. You could also give your bank alt cooking heirlooms.

First Aid
Just being able to heal yourself while leveling is always perk. If you want to have American Red Cross symbols floating around your head level this profession. Then bandage your self in front of a auctioneer.

Archaeology
If your toon is over level 20 you may learn this profession. There really is no point since you will spend most of your time in a main city. I would pass on this one.

Location

Shrine of Seven Stars – If you are an engineer there is a bank, guild bank, a mail box, and a auctioneer all in one spot and just a few steps away from each other. An anvil is there, too. Upstairs there are portals to every Capitol city. Don’t forget to set your hearth. Let a Mage port your low level bank alt to this location. High population

Stormwind
A mail box, bank, guild bank, and auction house all within one location. Close to the Darkmoon Faire.
Trade District has a high population. Dwarven District has a generally lower population.

Ironforge
A mail box, bank, guild bank, and auction house across from each other. Low population.

Orgrimmar
A mail box, bank, guild bank, and auction house across from each other.
High population

Silvermoon
A mail box, bank, guild bank, and auction house across from each other.
Low population

The Gear

I will recommend a few guides. Choose what you want. A standard tux with Diamond Tipped Cane is good enough for me.

Enchants

Companion Pets

Mount

Is there a rideable mount below level 20?

Addons

Altoholic – Keeps track of all the items in your bags, banks, and guild banks across all your toons.Bulk Mail Inbox – You don’t have to wear out your mouse button.Gatherer – Keeps track of all the mining and herbalism nodes you discover.Auctioneer – Lets you scan the AH for prices. Use it then start selling.